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Has anyone experienced issues with barometric pressure dropping?

Mon, 07/07/2008 - 03:49

Hello everyone,

Has anyone ever experienced aura increase (especially in the Mid West) due to the weather being over active? Case and point, I am in an area where tornadoes are active. We have had a few close calls. We're also getting a lot of heavy thunderstorms.

We had a bad storm end of June and shortly before the pressure drop, I had a really nasty aura and caught it with the device. Two weeks prior, we had a severe thunderstorm which I had three auras in a row, after the third one I went right into a seizure. I got slammed with a severe migraine which I never thought I was going to get rid of as it took almost half a bottle of Migranol that time. 

Now here we are tonight due for nasty storms and I got a heavy aura then went right into a seizure with a migraine afterwards. I checked and our barometric pressure is dropping again because we're due for storms Sunday and Monday. *sigh*

 

 

Comments

Re: Has anyone experienced issues

Submitted by msrobynlb on Tue, 2012-03-20 - 19:35

HI,

I am a nurse, I care for a 6 year old severly handicapped child and we notice he is extremely agitated and showes hyper activity in stormy weather.  For him being hyperactive leads him temp to increase and bring on seizures, but he will have seizures without a temp too.  So I'm looking on the web to see who else has this issue and what we could do to help prevent his bad days.  He can't talk so we are going strictly on what we observe.  I'm interested in you post, Ive never heard of Urea Cycle Disorder and I will be going online to search about it.  When you said an increase in nitrogen triggers problems iwth the brain and oxygen, does that mean your O2 saturation goes up or down?  I'm assuming it means your oxygen level drops in the brain, so I'm wondering if you are on supplemental oxygen and if turning if up during low barometric pressure helps you feel better or avoid siezures?  I see your post is old, I hope you get this.

HI,

I am a nurse, I care for a 6 year old severly handicapped child and we notice he is extremely agitated and showes hyper activity in stormy weather.  For him being hyperactive leads him temp to increase and bring on seizures, but he will have seizures without a temp too.  So I'm looking on the web to see who else has this issue and what we could do to help prevent his bad days.  He can't talk so we are going strictly on what we observe.  I'm interested in you post, Ive never heard of Urea Cycle Disorder and I will be going online to search about it.  When you said an increase in nitrogen triggers problems iwth the brain and oxygen, does that mean your O2 saturation goes up or down?  I'm assuming it means your oxygen level drops in the brain, so I'm wondering if you are on supplemental oxygen and if turning if up during low barometric pressure helps you feel better or avoid siezures?  I see your post is old, I hope you get this.

Re: Has anyone experienced issues

Submitted by ChattyKatty on Tue, 2008-07-08 - 00:14
PS I live along the Gulf Coast

Shake That Seizure - A website regarding Weather & Epilepsy

Submitted by johncoyle on Thu, 2008-07-10 - 23:22

Hi!

The company I started is doing research on this. It might be worth taking a look at... and we would love for you to submit your data and join our google group.

Cheers,

John Coyle
http://www.stsepilepsy.org (Shake That Seizure)

Hi!

The company I started is doing research on this. It might be worth taking a look at... and we would love for you to submit your data and join our google group.

Cheers,

John Coyle
http://www.stsepilepsy.org (Shake That Seizure)

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